For their second album, Sweet Sour, Southhampton, England’s Band of Skulls brought over their classic bluesy garage band sound for your listening pleasure, but they may have lost some of the magic in baggage claim. The comparisons to the White Stripes, the Kills, Black Keys, are inevitable in this genre of music, Band of Skulls was an appropriate addition to the likings of the fore mentioned after their unbelievable first album, Baby Darling Honey Face. It was an unbelievably good album, light, fun, fresh, and hard not to nod your head to every track. If it were a car, it would have been a Lotus Elise.
Their new album, Sweet Sour, has a harder, darker, heavier, and slower sound altogether. They traded in their fresh sound in for an over produced blah. It may have more glamour, but in the production it lost its soul. If Sweet Sour were a car, it would be a Maybach Benz, big, heavy, too much spent on production, ugly, and handles like driving a motor home.
Sweet Sour is an appropriate name for the album. Its really a mixed bag, some tracks are great, while others are boring, really boring, I guess those might be the sour tracks. On the whole, the album isn’t a complete loss; there are a few enjoyable moments (Sweet Sour, Wanderluster, You’re Not Pretty But You Got It Goin’ On). I was hoping for another album that you could produce more Mustang commercials with (see below if you don’t get it), instead we got an album that you can produce slow motion car crashes to.
Hopefully for the next album they recall their mojo from the first album, and pretend the second album never happened.
(Mustang commercial)
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